GALVESTON — A jumble of timbers piled high on Seawall Boulevard and a few broken piers protruding from the surf were all that remained after Hurricane Ike had its way with the historic Balinese Room, ...
April 27, 1990: On this day, the historic Balinese Room on Galveston's Seawall Boulevard was for sale for a cool $900,000. The front door of the club originally opened in 1942, and through that front ...
GALVESTON - The marquee at the Balinese Room on Seawall Boulevard once twinkled with the names of the nation's best-known entertainers while high-rollers gambled in the back room. The luster faded ...
Scott Arnold, the Houston attorney who bought Galveston’s Balinese Room in 2001 and watched it get washed into the Gulf of Mexico during the early hours of Hurricane Ike’s landfall, has posted an open ...
With all due respect to Brennan’s, the Houston area’s greatest cultural casualty of Hurricane Ike is – or was – on a Galveston pier overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. The Balinese Room, the legendary ...